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Communities and Courts - Religion and Law in Modern India (Hardcover)
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Communities and Courts - Religion and Law in Modern India (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
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The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis
in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek
positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments,
as well as a validation of their practices. Equally, courts have
become the most potent site of the play of conflicts and
contradictions between religious groups. The judicial power thus
not only arbiters conflicts but also defines what constitutes the
'religious', and demarcates its limits. This volume argues that the
relationship between law and religion is not merely one of
competing sovereignties - as rational law moulding religion in its
reformist vision, and religion defending its turf against secular
incursions- but needs to be understood within a wider social and
political canvas. The essays here demonstrate how questions of
religious pluralism, secularism, law and order, are all central to
understanding how the religious and the legal remain imbricated
within each other in modern India. It will be of interest to
academics, researchers, and advanced students of Sociology,
History, Political Science and Law. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and
Culture.
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